Transformers: War for Continuity

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Hasbro just announced two things regarding the continuity of the Transformers universe. The bigger news is that the company plans on working on one Transformers continuity for the foreseeable future, rather than resetting everything every couple of years. The other announcement is that somehow, apparently, the Transformers: War for Cybertron videogame is somehow in the same continuity as the current Transformers: Prime cartoon.

Now, I’m not going to knock Prime again — it’s not for me, but thanks to some helpful readers I do understand what some TF fans see in it — but this seems to be a baffling and bafflingly unnecessary move. Yes, both the game and the cartoon star Optimus and Megatron, and both feature Dark Energon as a mcguffin. But that’s close to it. There are countless Transformers in WfC that are mysteriously absent in Prime, and three of the six Autobots in Prime aren’t seen in WfC. In Prime, Bumblebee cannot talk, as in the Bay movies, yet in WfC he can talk and not sound like a moron. More importantly, the two incarnations are for totally different audiences — WfC for bitter, old G1 fans, and Prime for young audiences (and I believe that is proven beyond a doubt by the three kids Bland Hero, Sassy Girl, and Brilliant Nerd, or whatever their names are).

So how are they really connected? They’re not, and I’m baffled that Hasbro is pretending that they are. What’s the benefit, other than confusing hardcore TF fans? No one even considered that WfC and Prime were the same continuity, and no one was upset. But now they are. (Via Seibertron)